Archive - Polyglot Python

Relational databases in a packaged Python application without permanent scaring: Using alembic seamlessly

Use alembic in a database-requiring application without users noticing

Aug 26, 2021 •

July 2021

Relational databases in a packaged Python application without permanent scaring: Managing databases with alembic

Relational databases are extremely useful. This note describes how to package and distribute a Python application which requires a relational database.

Jul 14, 2021 •

June 2021

Python's GIL is great, except when writing CPU-intensive network services

The GIL is great. People who say otherwise are wrong 99% of the time. This post is about the other 1% of cases.

Jun 21, 2021 •

Deploying a Python web application is extremely complicated. Is there a simpler way?

Why properly deploying a Python web app requires five additional applications (e.g., nginx, uwsgi, certbot, cron, systemd).

Jun 11, 2021 •

Notes on programming in Python, Go, OCaml, ...

Welcome to Polyglot Python by me, Ivan.

Jun 3, 2021 •

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